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16 Days of ARTivism Begin November 23, 2010 San Francisco, CA

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (November 4, 2010) — On Tuesday, November 23rd, at 12 Noon, on the San Francisco City Hall steps, city officials, poets, healers and artists will speak out on the need to recognize the violence inherent in our culture. The Mayor will announce a proclamation for November 25th, to be recognized as San Francisco’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Towards Women and Girls, which is a UN mandated day commemorated globally since 1999.

The rally and press conference will kick off a 16-day series of events throughout the Bay Area and the world with a multicultural cast of artists, healers and activists, to transform the culture of violence throughout the globe. From November 25th through December 10th, the public is invited to attend and/or create healing ceremonies, dance performances, and workshops that seek to eliminate violence towards women in our families, our communities and throughout the world.

This is an example of community creating a ceremony to heal violence.

What action are you willing to take to reclaim the human rights of women and girls?

The violence, abuse, rape that women have experienced for generations remains inside, deeply hidden. Its presence creates the patterns that repeat and impact our children.
In this workshop, we will speak the pain and work in spiritual ways to transmute it’s power.
All are welcome

Last April the CNN listed Ciudad Juárez to be among the most dangerous cities in the world…

Diana Gameros is a singer/songwriter and performer, originally from Ciudad Juárez, who is now living in San Francisco. Through visual art, video and song, Diana will take you on a journey to connect with the women and people of Juárez as you observe how they start to speak up and express their unconformity…even when their voice shakes.

http://www.themarsh.org/Marilyn_Pitman.html
11/27 – 28 and 12/5 – 6
sat at 8:30 pm
sun at 7 pm
The Marsh – Marilyn Pittman IT’S ALL THE RAGEhttp://www.themarsh.org
60 minutes no intermission All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served. This show is 18+. Please do not bring infants to the show.All shows are at The Marsh San Francisco.

NEW!
Listen to Marilyn’s interview on KALW’s Out In The Bay radio broadcast.

Marilyn’s interview on KALW’s Crosscurrents broadcast.

Listen to Marilyn’s interview on KFOG with Peter Finch. (Page down about two thirds of the way to the “Beat of the Bay” show entitled “Good Parent/Bad Parent.”)

Comedy Beat Review
Bay Citizen Review

The Marsh is proud to present Marilyn Pittman’s IT’S ALL THE RAGE. Pittman developed IT’S ALL THE RAGE as one of six artists invited to join The Marsh’s second Performance Initiative in 2009. She performed the show to sold-out houses and standing ovations as part of the Festival of New Voices II in June of this year.

In 1997, Pittman’s identity as a stand-up comic, UC Berkeley educator and NPR talent consultant was shattered by the sudden murder-suicide of her parents. The Pittmans were a normal mid-western family. Dad was a World War II hero, Mom was a poet and editor of her college yearbook and they had been married for almost fifty years before their shocking deaths. It was a family of big personalities doing daring things and laughing a lot, from penny carnivals in the backyard to wild rides on mountain passes. As her mom would say, “We had a lot of fun!” And they did. Hard as it was to reconcile this tragedy with her family memories, Pittman, a well-known Bay Area comic, has a knack for mining humor out of dark truths. The show, at once murder mystery and survival tale, is both uproariously funny and heartbreakingly sad.

Pittman emerged from the San Francisco gay comedy scene during the AIDS era. She made her name at Josie’s Cabaret in San Francisco’s Castro district, performing countless headliner sets as well as her two solo shows ‘Thank You For Sharing’ and ‘But Enough About You.’ LGBT audiences from Provincetown to Anchorage rolled in the aisles at her wild and funny takes on right wing fundamentalists, personal ads, gay sex, lesbian relationships (including her own) and an assortment of annoying self-help books. She is a G.L.A.A.D. Media Award winner from that time for her work as an ‘out’ comic.

I went to this circle today. It was powerful!! We worked on the energy of dissapointment, on feeling like no matter what we do, nothing is going to change for women, the belief that american women are not capable of solidarity with other women…so much impotence, frustration, dispair, the sorrow of knowing young girls are brutalized because it is condoned by society…all those traumatic patterns and memories tapped. I feel refreshed. I invite all women to come next monday to the Hanuman Center on 18th St and Douglass in the Castro at 1:30.
love donation accepted.